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February 14th, 2010, 01:25 PM
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Metalcry
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Rock/Metal Operas
Well, I'm a HUGE fan of Rock/metal operas. Sometimes this kind of releases get confused with concept albums: to make it clear I'll use and example:
Orwarrior is a CONCEPT album, but NOT a metal. You need to have several characters and several singers to interpretate them to have a rock/metal opera, so probably the best known exampler for this nowadays is Avantasia. I'll make a list of the albums this kind I own: Avantasia I, II, III (waiting for IV and V to be released this year) Ayreon's whole carreer Aina Daniel Liverani's Genius I, II, III Gary Hughes' Once and Future Kind I, II Elfiskaya Rukopis I, II (This was EXTREMELY difficult to find) Soulspell - A Legacy Of Honour (waiting for the II to be released this year) Leonardo - The Absolute Man Neverland - Reversing Time (A new one is coming this year) Pandea - Soylent Green Nikolo Kotzev - Nostradamus (one of the best albums I ever heard, waiting for Draconia to be released in 2011 or 2012) Caamora - She (amazing album) Andrew Lloyd Webber's - Jesuscrist Superstar (both in english and spanish) Bajel - Bajel (South american - spanish, not the best effort ever exactly...) Xystus & US Concert - Equilibrio (quite a good album) Edgar Allan Poe: Legado de Una Tragedia (Spanish release, really interesting if you're into ehavy & power metal) TSO complete carreer (in special Beethoven's Last Night and Night Castle are wonderful) Merlin: The Rock Opera Dawnrider - Fate Is Callin I (wonder if there would ever be a part II) Pictorial Wand - A Sleeper's Awakening Pictorial Wand - Face Of Our Fathers I'm looking forward the release of: Samuel Arkan - Origins Opera Diabolicus - 1614 Charlemagne - By The Sword And The Cross (With Christopher Lee!!) Searching the net and in particular the ProgArchives, I knew about a "collective" named Colossus Projects, that basically picks prog artists and bands from the finnish scene and make up prog rock operas based upon classic movies and books (and also tribute's in which I'm not interested). There are a few that seems to be great and particulary interesting: Dante's Inferno: The Divine Comedy Part I Dante's Inferno: The Divine Comedy Part II The Spaghetti Epic - I, II, III Odyssey - The Greatest Tale The 7 Samurai - The Ultimate Epic The Colossus Of Rhodes Kalevala - Finnish Progressive Rock Epic Colossus Project - The Empire & The Rebellion (YES, it's based in Star Wars) The thing is that I tried to get in contact with this people but I was unable (getting no answer from the myspace) Do you know a trustfull place where I could buy this albums? And by the way, tell us what you think of this kind of releases, your favourites, and, please, if you know of any I haven't mention and you consider it worthy, let me know!  |
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February 14th, 2010, 01:52 PM
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Yachad el ha'or
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Try out Waltari "Yeah! Yeah! Die! Die!".
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February 14th, 2010, 03:34 PM
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all Chaostar's album. (the Chris Antoniou's project, Spectic Flesh). It's not really Metal but truly Opera
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February 15th, 2010, 03:26 AM
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Yachad el ha'or
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PS: Also keep in mind Jesus Christ Superstar classics
 UPD: ... and perhaps Soviet rock opera "Junona and Avos" If you don't manage to find it I can get it for you.
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February 18th, 2010, 05:44 PM
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wow you are much more knowledgeable on these than me! Have you tried lasercd.com yet as a source?
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February 18th, 2010, 08:41 PM
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Metalcry
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Dante's Inferno: The Divine Comedy Part I (Inferno)
Dante's Inferno: The Divine Comedy Part II (Purgatorio) FINALLY I was able to get these...it was aroun 35 euros each, but well, is a total amount of 8 CDs of prog music. I'll lay my impressions asap. |
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February 19th, 2010, 07:39 AM
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Orphaned sister
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Savatage- Streets:a rock opera should for sure be on your list
You could also say that Savatage's Dead Winter Dead (concept album on the war in Yugoslavia, they used music from Mozart and Beethoven) and Wake of Magellan qualify. And how about Symphony X who put music to the story of the Odyssey on their 'the odyssey' album?
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February 19th, 2010, 08:14 AM
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Orphaned Brother
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Doesn't the SX album come under the concept-esque album? I mean, sure there isn't really a concept, it still is in a narrative form and tells a story, but goes against David's definition of a Rock Opera. @ All of the above- I hadn't heard much of Rock/metal opera and thanks to this, I've learnt about many amazing artists. |
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February 19th, 2010, 10:33 AM
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Metalcry
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Anyway, Savatage is one of my all time favourite bands  with Edge Of Thorns and Gutter Ballet as my favourite albums, followed by Streets, Dead Winter Dead and Sirens. Cris Oliva was a genius I will always miss. RIP. But as said, Streets, etc, are to me much into the concept albums, as Queensryche's Operation Mindcrime and Operation Mindcrim II (which are kind in the frontier of both, since they're pretty much concept albums, but still got minimum appearences by two other characters). Regarding Symphony X, The Odyssey is my fav album from them, together with The Divine Wings Of Tragedy. I also enjoyed Paradise Lost, although some people say it's not such a solid release, to my ears it's quite worthy. Russell Allen is vocal God. |
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February 19th, 2010, 11:00 AM
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Orphaned Brother
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Exactly!! So many people bitch about Paradise Lost while I absolutely love it. Just as usual, it has a very strong vocal performance and yes, Russell Allen is a God ! Though I can understand why people don't like it as much as the older ones as Michael James Romeo's performance was nowhere close to his best. |
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February 19th, 2010, 03:26 PM
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Orphaned sister
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I can only say I whole heartedly agree about the Paradise Lost album and Russel Allen. Seeing the guy perform was nothing short of a miracle. The notes he hits without making huge effort... o la la!
And Savatage used to sing with 3 people on stage during shows. This was mostly during the Wake of Magellan tour in 1996.
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February 19th, 2010, 04:01 PM
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Metalcry
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It's differente when it comes to the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, where Jon Oliva, Chris Caffery and many many many many others are involved, and Zach was eventually involved in the past too. |
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February 20th, 2010, 08:57 AM
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Orphaned Brother
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Talking about Jon Oliva, some idiot edited the wikipedia page on him, that he was dead.
I used to be a 4 year old back then  When put in perspective, I wish that I was born 5-10 years earlier. |
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February 20th, 2010, 07:45 PM
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Metalcry
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February 22nd, 2010, 01:48 AM
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I do not usually like Rock Operas, exceptions are Ayreon works and Avantasia.
But just to add something: there is a project of two spanish non-metallers guys (Jacobo García and Joaquín Padilla) to write an album about the life of Edgar Allan Poe. It is called EDGAR ALLAN POE – LEGADO DE UNA TRAGEDIA (Tragedy's Legacy) and it has been recorded by 50 different musicians along 2 years and 3 record studios. The album speaks of life and death of the american writer, and it is the first (spanish) attempt of joining this huge amount of (spanish) musicians working in the same direction. The result? It is more close to Avantasia than Aina or Kotzev, for sure (speaking about heavyness, so to speak), I had the chance to listen to it, but not so deeply. I've read a lot of positive reviews, but honestly I do not trust too much in those two guys (they are known for being components of Iguana Tango, a poppy band of the late 90's with imho not so much merit). Oh, another problem: it is fully in spanish. This is the cast of characters and musicians, mainly people coming from well-known bands. Review here: http://www.metalzone.biz/php/modules...content&id=872 Quote:
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February 22nd, 2010, 03:03 AM
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Yachad el ha'or
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Explorer's Club is pure prog I guess.
What about operatic metal or metal arrangements of opera? Like, Rhapsody = kinda operatic power metal; True Symphonic Rockestra = power metal arrangements of opera.
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February 22nd, 2010, 08:23 AM
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Metalcry
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Lozanoje, if you read my list in the first post of this topic, you'll see I've already mention the Edgar Allan Poe: Legado de una tragedia opera
but thanks for the interest.Por cierto, eres de Metalzone? Jajajaja, you soy David de Metalcry!! |
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February 22nd, 2010, 09:47 AM
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February 1st, 2011, 05:38 AM
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Hello... Since you seem to be interrested in this genre, I will present my project. It took one year to achieve this piece. I'm also waiting for the release of my friend Sam Arkan (Origins).
Maybe you can also check: - Beto Vasquez Infinity's albums. - Cybion by Kalisia (with Arjen Lucassen as guest on vocals) : 1 song but 1hour11min11sec long - The Black Halo by Kamelot since it's a concept album ands there are other musicians (Jens Johanson, Simone Simons, Shargath etc etc). The Road to Consciousness is a joint venture of talented musicians from different countries, united in one common passion for music. The music and lyrics were originally composed by Bernard Daubresse, founding member of the Brussels based band Free Launch. After some tracks were written, Bernard contacted Kristell Lowagie, he knew for her work as author and singer with Skeptical Minds. She was the first one to join the team. The teammates are friends or musicians contacted through the net. Finally, no less than 20 talented musicians and singers lend their talent to achieve this piece. Yves Huts from the well known Dutch band Epica made an awesome work on the orchestral parts. The concept of the album is focused on human adventures. You will discover some characters who are experiencing situation that maybe some listeners have experienced themselves : quest for spirituality, crazy ambitions, fear of the death, deceptions etc... All this leading to an epic song divided in 4 parts. If you like great vocal performances, epic guitar solos and catchy chorus you will love this piece. http://www.roadtoconsciousness.com http://www.myspace.com/roadtoconsciousness The album is now out and available on legal platforms, shops in the Benelux and of course on the webshop http://roadtoconsciousness.bigcartel...sness-digipack shipped worldwide the same day you order it!!! Some reviews: Metalkrant (dutch) http://www.metalkrant.sp2o.org/?page=5&message=2491 Music in Belgium (9/10) (french) http://www.musicinbelgium.net/pl/mod...ontent&id=4641 Mindview (6/7-Gold) (dutch) Des filles et des riffs (18/20) (french) http://www.desfillesetdesriffs.fr/ch...s/rtc_rtc.html Ravenheart (9,5/10) (english) http://www.ravenheartmusic.com/products-group-92.html  Last edited by 2manynotes : February 1st, 2011 at 06:42 AM. |
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